Temporary binder.



No. 813,948. PATENTBD FEB. 27. 1906. J. N. GHRISTENSER TEMPORARY BINDER.

APYLIOLTIGH i'ILED APR 10, 1905.

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I nvenior.

UNITED sT Tns PAEENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27,1906.

Application filed April 10, 1905. Serial No. 254,871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JENS N. CHRISTENSEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illitime, haveinvented new and useful Im rovements in Temporary Binders, of which t efollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of devices known as temporarybinders for pcriodicals, journals, papers, and the like; and the objectis to provide a binder of the abovedescribed character with simple andconvenient means whereby the binder may receive additional papers andgradually have the oldest ones extricated without interfering with theremaining papers.

l/Vith this object in view the invention will be hereinafter fullydescribed and claimed.

In the accom anying drawings, forming art of this specification, and inwhich simiar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, I haveillustrated an embodiment of my invention, it being understood thatother forms of embodiment thereof may be employed without departing fromthe spirit of same.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an inner view inelevation of a binder embodying my invention, showing it open. Fig. 2 isa cross-sectional view of the binder, showin the covers closed andillustrating a num er of papers held in place therebetween, said sectionbeing taken on line f If of Fig. l. Fi 3 is a long tudinal sections viewthrough inding-strip b, showin the cord-tip and a portion of the cordlocated in position thereon, said section being taken on ine g g of Fig.1; and Fig. 4 is a detached perspective view of one of the cord-tips anda portion of one of the cords.

In the drawings the reference-letters a and a designate the covers,which are preferably made of cardboard and have hinged to their rearedges, by means of cloth or other flexiblc material, binding-strips band I), made of any suitable material, but preferably of cardboardreinforced by a metal strip on their inner sides. The binding-stripshave perforations, and the strip 6 carries fasteners c, preferably madeof spring-wire bent to form two coils. Connecting the two binding-stripsare cords d, each of said cords having at one end a metal tip 6, aboutone-half of which is of a half-tubular shape, as at e, while the otherportion thereof is made full tubular in shape and secures one end of thecord, so that the portion of the same adjacent to the secured endthereof may be placed in or removed from the half tubular portion. Theother end of each cord is provided with a pointed puncturing metal tipor needle 0 to pierce the papers when the same are being filed.

It will be understood that the papers or other documents are securedbetween the 012))- posite surfaces of the binding-strips b and and thatthe cords at will pass through the inner margins of the papers, as isclearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, in which figure it will beobserved that the binding-strips b and b are bent back so as to lie onthe inner surfaces of the covers a and a, respectively, so that when thecords are drawn taut and secured to the fasteners c on 'the stri b thecord-tips 6 will -lie longitudinall on t e binding-strip 1) within thegrooves provided in the strip 6 for the rece tion of said cord-tips, asis clearly shown in I igsv ii to 3 of the drawings. The grooves 72 areemployed to pre vent the cord-tips c from moving sidewjse, and it isapparent that instead of having two grooves, as shown in Fig. 1 of thedrawings, a groove extending the entire length of the strijp b may beemployed.

hen it is desired to remove the papers, the cords d are disengaged fromthe fasteners c on the strip b, when by ulling on the tips 6 the cordsmay be artia lly drawn through the papers and openings in the covers, sothat the portion of each cord adjacent to the end thereof secured in thetip 6 may be placed in the half-tubular portion 6 of each tip, when itma be assed through the binding-strip b, and t us a low the papers to beremoved over the tips.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A temporary binder consisting of two covers, a binding-strip flexiblyconnected to the rear edge of each cover and having a number ofopenings, fasteners secured on one strip, eords adapted to pass throughsaid openings and connect the strips, each cord having at one end ametal retaining-tip, a portion of each of said tips being formed incross-section into a half-tubular shape and the other portion of eachtip being formed into full tubular shape and adapted to engage one endof the cords the other ends of the cords being adapted to en age saidfasteners, substantially as to describe JENS N. CHRISTENSEN.

Witnesses ANDREW OLsEN, FRITZ FRANTZEN.

